Libya and Egypt Attacks (Page 7)

I spend at least an hour in the morning watching msnbc, cnn & fox, I also occasionally see the the other non cable news outlets occasionally. It appears to me that all but one is in the tank for Obama and the DNC, to varying degrees. That would make it one that could be argued has a slight slant to the right or a conservative spin and something like six or eight that are on the opposite side?

The topic of this thread and the facts related to it pretty much bear this out. The President and his spokes people have out right lied to the American people repeatedly about what occurred in Libya and hardly a mention of it on all but one of the news organizations I mentioned.

The problem is it's virtually impossible to pin down a number as to "how" biased an outlet is.  You can point to a Sean Hannity on Fox or a Chris Matthews on MSNBC and say how uber biased they both are, but there's a lot of different shows including hard news and entertainers that send it all over the map.

I saw this several months ago that I thought was interesting.  
http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/02/16/how-biased-is-your-media/

It's nothing more than an attempt to score bias levels, but it's no science by any means.  The weirdest thing I noticed was it had Drudge as leaning liberal, lol.  That's about the most conservative outlet I know of.

So I would assumed you'd be just as disgusted by Republicans if they made a similiar statement? Like the communications director of the House Appropriations Committee saying "It is extremely distasteful that some ill-informed Democrat staff are using the instability and violence abroad to score cheap political hits".

What? Where'd you hear that?

I thought the head of the State Department is the Secretary of State. 

I'm confused.  Maybe we need someone on the left to explain this to us... 

GEARBOY! Where are you?

But what about 1983?  I am unaware of the war started with Lebanon when 241 US service men where killed.  In fact, Reagan called for the withdrawal of troops and they were gone 4 months after the bombing.

I also wouldnt call Libya silent for 25 years considering the government later took responsibility for Pan Am 103 in 1988 w/ 270 dead.

Well I heard it on Faux news, it was live or at least I was under the impression that it was live testimony during the Senate Hearings this morning. I looked at CNN and MSNBC and they were talking about the assult on Big Bird on MSNBC and I don't recall what CNN was covering at that time. In fairness to CNN they did for a short period cover the hearing.

Looks like from what I've heard in the hearings the White House did in fact leave these people at risk for Political gain, and knowingly so.

I am KING of the double click.

The State Department denied Tuesday it ever concluded that the deadly consulate attack Sept. 11 in Libya was an unplanned outburst prompted by an anti-Islam movie, despite public statements early on by some in the Obama administration suggesting that was the case.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/10/state-department-denies-concluding-film-sparked-consulate-attack-in-libya/#ixzz28v8ikxfe

Emphasis on the word "concluded".  So, they may have parroted it from the mountain top for a week, but they didn't actually "conclude" it was or was not the video until they realized that their story was being shot to crap with the facts.

I don't agree that the lack of security was for political purposes.  I have to believe that nobody on either side of the political spectrum would knowingly endanger American's overseas like that.  The argument that the State Department was negligent is most certainly valid because they did put our diplomats in harms way with inadequate protection.  For that, they should pay a political price.

This is really turning into a Watergate type scenario.  The break ins at Watergate were bad, but not really a huge deal.  The coverup on the other hand brought down a president.  Obama and Hillary could have taken their lumps for the lack of security, but in stead chose to proactively cover up the lack of protection by claiming it was a spontaneous attack due to a Video that they could not have foreseen.

President Obama was STILL (!) blaming the video in his Sept 25 (2 weeks later) address to the U.N.  There is no way in heck he is going to let words flow from his mouth between now and the election that this was a terrorist attack and that, despite his and the previous admininstrations' efforts, al-Qaeda is alive and kicking. 

Jake Tapper: "Didn't the President shoot first and aim later?"

Carney: Blah Blah Blah (think of a response that is not a response) Blah Blah Blah.

At least there's one person in the White House Press Corps who asks questions.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/10/tapper_to_carney_on_libya_didnt_the_president_shoot_first_and_ask_questions_later.html